Transcription & Translation
Membrane Transport
Membrane Structure
Energy Derivation
Mitochondria & Chloroplast
100

What acts as a template for RNA synthesis in Transcription? 

What is DNA? 

100

Diffusion rate depends on which two molecule properties? 

What are size and solubility properties? 

100

What is the membrane's primary responsibility? 

What is defining cell boundaries? What is separating exterior environment from interior environment?  
100

What is the primary entry material in glycolysis? 

What is glucose? 

100

Where are the 2 sites of ATP generation in the mitochondria? 

What is the matrix and inner mitochondrion membrane? 

200

What are the 4 different types of RNA? 

What is messenger RNA (mRNA), ribosomal RNA (rRNA) , transfer RNA (tRNA) and micro RNA (miRNA)? 

200

Cells contain which two classes of membrane transport proteins? 

What are transporters and channels? 

200

What is the difference between a saturated and unsaturated fatty acid?

What is a double bond (unsaturated fatty acid)?
200

What is the name of the enzyme that catalyzes the cleavage of 6-carbon glucose to two 3-carbon molecules? 

What is aldolase? 

200

The chloroplast and mitochondria both have an inner and outer membrane, but the chloroplast has an extra compartment. What is the name of that extra compartment? 

What is thylakoid membrane? 

300

Draw on the board and write the name of the 3 binding sites for tRNA on the large ribosomal unit. 


300

What are four different types of stimuli influence that opens and closes ion channels?

What is voltage-gated, ligand-gated (extracellular), ligand-gated (intracellular), and mechanically gated?

300

What does a transporter protein do?

What is transporting molecules that shouldn't go through the plasma membrane?

300

What are the two ways animals can make ATP?

What is substrate level phosphorylation and oxidative phosphorylation?

300

What are the 3 complexes in the electron transport chain of the inner mitochondrion membrane? 

What are cytochrome c reductase, NADH dehydrogenase complex and cytochrome c oxidase? 

400

What crucial molecule(s) is different between prokaryotes and eukaryotes in the Initiation step of Translation? 

What are Initiation Factors (IF1, IF2, IF3)? 

400

What are porins?

What is the outer membrane of mitochondrion and some bacteria?

400

Draw the components (head and tail) of the membrane

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400

What is the gluconeogenesis reaction?

What is Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate transforming into Fructose-6-phosphate?

400

In the Calvin Cycle, where does ADP and NADP+ go? 

What is they go back into the light reaction to make ATP and NADPH? 

500

A particular triplet of bases in the coding sequence of DNA is AGC. What is the anticodon on the tRNA that binds the mRNA codon? 

What is UCG? 

500

What changes when a nerve terminal is activated?

What is the voltage-gated Ca2+ channel opening, arriving action potential (electrical signal), fused synaptic vesicle, and released neurotransmitter (chemical signal)?

500

How is a transmembrane hydrophilic pore formed?

What is multiple amphipathic alpha helices?

500

What is the TCA cycle (list at least three steps and draw on the white board)?

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500

How does 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP) inhibit ATP synthesis? 

What is it creates a hole in the inner mitochondrial membrane allowing protons back into the matrix and bypassing ATP synthase inhibiting ATP production?